19000 - Top Rare Stephanodus Partial Dentary Late Cretaceous Fish Dalmanites limulurus 4g Probably Type H5

4g Probably Type H5

Its quite rare find specimens preserved in its natural matrix

These teeth are very unusual to see and this is one of a handful of teeth I recently acquired

Semi-quantitative EDS X-ray microanalysis was performed using EDS spot analysis with acquisition

Ptychagnostus atavus

19000 - Top Rare Stephanodus Partial Dentary Late Cretaceous Fish Dalmanites limulurus 4g Probably Type H5Rare species belonging to the Trigonodontoidae family. This type of specimens in the fossil record of the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of the Ouled Abdoun Basin are not common. Stephanodus sp, Zittel 1883 (ray finned fish) Osteichthyes Tetraodontiformes Trigonodontoidae Parent taxon: Trigonodontoidae according to G. R. Case and D. R. Schwimmer 1988 See also Kumar and Loyal 1987 Subtaxa: Stephanodus lybicus Ecology: nektonic carnivore Environments: